Up to 35,000 Romanian and Bulgarian migrants may come to Britain next year
when restriction on their right to work are lifted, MPs were told yesterday.

Ion Jinga, the Romanian Ambassador, said he expected between 15,000 and 25,000
nationals to travel to the UK and Konstantin Dimitrov, the Bulgarian
Ambassador, suggested between 8,000 and 10,000 would come.

Mr Dimitrov dismissed suggestions that large numbers of Bulgarians would come
saying that a massive influx of migrants was “out of the question”.

Controls on what work Romanians and Bulgarians can do in the UK have been in
place since 2007 when the